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Our mission is the creation of a society in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people enjoy the basic rights of equality, privacy, personal autonomy, freedom of belief and expression, and freedom from harassment.

Our nation has unquestioned authority to control its borders and to regulate immigration. We must exercise the awesome power to exclude or deport immigrants consistent with the rule of law and the requirements of the Constitution.

is a lawsuit brought by parents, students and a former administrator against the State of California for the failure to respond to reports that districts did not provide essential language instruction to English learner students.

Moreno v. City of Anaheim is a lawsuit seeking to end at-large elections in the City of Anaheim.

The Anaheim of today is a diverse and modern international destination that no longer resembles the burgeoning town of 100,000 for which the at-large system may have once been a good fit. With 336,265 residents, Anaheim is now the 10th largest city in California, but the largest in the state to still hold at-large elections.

This means there are no districts from which voters are able to elect a local resident to represent their community and needs on the city council. Without district representatives to make government accountable to all of Anaheim’s communities, the city council is beholden only to the most powerful in making critical decisions that affect everyone’s lives in the city.

On January 8, 2014, ACLU SoCal, Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian and Ho and the Law Offices of Robert Rubin announced a settlement agreement that will allow Anaheim voters to change the system to six city council members elected by districts, while the mayor would continue to be elected at-large.

Case Developments

UPDATE

January 8, 2014

ACLU SoCal announced a settlement agreement that will allow Anaheim voters to change the system to six city council members elected by districts, while the mayor would continue to be elected at-large. Read the settlement.

FILING

June 28, 2012

ACLU SoCal sued the City of Anaheim for violating the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). Read the complaint.